City of big ideas and big business

Hangzhou is ideal place for leaders looking to the future

When leaders of the world's 20 leading large economies gather for their annual summit this weekend, they will be in a city many people outside China will not have heard of, but which is one of the most prosperous, go-ahead cities in the country.

And of those outside China who know of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, many may have heard of it in connection with one of the country's most go-ahead companies, Alibaba Group.